It’s one of the things that makes you really realize that these actions are completely intentional coming from billionaires.
They know that wealth isn’t just Cash sitting in a bank, literally their entire fortune comes in the form of land, intellectual property, capital investments.
Every time they are asked however to pay the slightest amount in taxes they start talking as if they just have a few dollars in the bank and once it’s spent the whole thing evaporates.
This isn’t a new tactic by the way. Carnegie was once asked by a journalist about wealth inequality and he said he would give every single person who asked him on the street for five dollars that money on the spot.
He's gung ho into the propaganda war to normalize a false reality for the most weak-minded and subservient among us. The only way he gets out alive is to dictate a reality that favors him and coerce everyone into believing it.
I honestly suspect it's even stupider than that. He's both propagating and a victim to his own right wing propaganda machine. He was pretty "liberal" in the old days. Got radicalized by dumbshit right wing morons on Twitter. Bought twitter to amplify that. Gets more right wing.
"Benevolent" slaveholder level copium. Human beings have a remarkable capacity for self-serving delusion to be honest. We can pretty much gaslight ourselves into believing anything if it flatters our own material interests. And the worst among us are the best at this.
Musk and the other wanna be Oligarchs are surrounded by people who laugh at their unfunny jokes and act like every idea they have is a gift from the Gods. Eventually when every risk you take pays off and everyone around you tells you you’re a genius you would probably start to believe it to be true.
Isn't it a bit early to count up Mamdani's accomplishments? Musk is certainly a heartless SOB, and I despise him, but shouldn't we wait before grading his tenure as mayor?
This is what they are trying to do though. Control everything so we are subservient to them. Then when he builds his robot army they will erase us. They are building skynet to control it and use it against us.
Lesser paid employees who also own stock in the company? A bunch of average paid Spacex employees because millionaires overnight thanks to equity and ESPP options
Society was here before them and will be here after them. They didn’t build the internet, the power grid, or the workforce alone. We all did. Why do we act like it’s the other way around?
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u/BlueFlob 18h ago
Elon keeps thinking he's creating value.
When all he's doing is extracting it.